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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8037acd | He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game--only with higher stakes and greater consequences. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 8032ccd | At times like this, Eryn didn't feel like they were just twins. They were teammates. They were partners. They were two halves of the same brain. | partners siblings twins | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 56c0976 | People would rather believe in fairy godmothers and divine intervention than to think that you took charge of your own destiny. | destiny fairy-tales feminism | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| e49c8a4 | Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink? | façades fairytale fantasy happy-ever-after love made-up reality romance truth | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 3cb015d | Depression, I have argued, stems partly from an overcommitment to the self and an undercommitment to the common good. This | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 9984e58 | Being in touch with what we do well underpins the readiness to change," David continued. "This is related to the Losada ratio. To enable us to hear criticism nondefensively and to act creatively on it, we need to feel secure." | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 0ed22d0 | Do you have a problem with alcohol? Is it "abuse," or, worse, do you "depend" on drinking to get through the day? It will not surprise you to find out that the lines between handling liquor well, abusing alcohol, and being dependent on it are far from clear." | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| ffaa303 | YOU SHOULD NOW be well on your way to using disputation, the prime technique for learned optimism, in your daily life. You first saw the ABC link--that specific beliefs lead to dejection and passivity. Emotions and actions do not usually follow adversity directly. Rather they issue directly from your beliefs about adversity. This means that if you change your mental response to adversity, you can cope with setbacks much better. The main too.. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| e38619b | TRANSCENDING Escher got it right. Men step down and yet rise up, the hand is drawn by the hand it draws, and a woman is poised on her very own shoulders. Without you and me this universe is simple, run with the regularity of a prison. Galaxies spin along stipulated arcs, stars collapse at the specified hour, crows u-turn south and monkeys rut on schedule. But we, whom the cosmos shaped for a billion years to fit this place, we know it faile.. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| a21729c | First, you learn to recognize the automatic thoughts flitting through your consciousness at the times you feel worst. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 90f2b79 | Second, you learn to dispute the automatic thoughts by marshaling contrary evidence. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 4497251 | Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 60922aa | Their (the Greeks)encounters with foreign were not coloured by the belief that such people's religion was false and inferior, the belief that thinges Christians, Muslims, Hindus or atheist nowadays | Robin Lane Fox | ||
| 7e8617d | The whole cosmos is a materialized thought of the Creator. This heavy, earthly clod, floating in space, is a dream of God. He made all things out of His consciousness, even as man in his dream consciousness reproduces and vivifies a creation with its creatures. "'God first created the earth as an idea. Then He quickened it; energy atoms came into being. He coordinated the atoms into this solid sphere. All its molecules are held together by .. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 8882e08 | the true stature of a great work may not at first be recognized by those of a more conventional cast of mind. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 15ca632 | The truths taught by Jesus went far beyond blind belief, which waxes and wanes under the influence of the paradoxical pronouncements of priest and cynic. Belief is an initial stage of spiritual progress necessary to receive the concept of God. But that concept has to be transposed into conviction, into experience. Belief is the precursor of conviction; one has to believe a thing in order to investigate equitably about it. But if one is sati.. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| a77df9f | I shall remold my consciousness. In this new year I am a new person. And I shall change my consciousness again and again until I have driven away all the darkness of ignorance and manifested the shining light of Spirit in whose image I am made. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| d5fbe6b | Your SPINE is your Body BATTERY. Keep it CHARGED. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 92659a1 | A saying from the Hindu scriptures is: "In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle." | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 9a9f15b | Just as a wet match, when struck, does not produce fire, so a mind saturated with restlessness cannot produce the fire of concentration even when one makes great efforts to strike the cosmic spark. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 94e1305 | To repeat a prayer-demand over and over again, whether mentally or out loud, with ever-deeper attention and devotion, spiritualizes the prayer; it changes conscious, concentrated repetition into superconscious experience. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 7063093 | Anyone who practices a scientific technique for divine realization is a yogi. He may be either married or unmarried, either a man of worldly responsibilities or one of formal religious ties. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| c078530 | Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 1f6c1c2 | Colonel, General Sheridan will be big enough for all of us before this is through. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| b28b517 | It's so rarely about military genius, who the greater tactician might be, who sat higher in his class at West Point. It's about mistakes, some of them unavoidable, some of them purely stupid. My job is to make fewer mistakes than the enemy, | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 00a3213 | The heavy round face was looking at him, the hard look of a man who had also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were often mindless decoration, that the army was led not by symbols, but by the fallible egos and blind fantasies of men. | war | Jeff Shaara | |
| 7c0be01 | This regiment was formed last fall, back in Maine. There were a thousand of us then. There's not three hundred of us now." He glanced up briefly. "But what is left is choice." He was embarrassed. He spoke very slowly, staring at the ground. "Some of us volunteered to fight for Union. Some came in mainly because we were bored at home and this looked like it might be fun. Some came because we were ashamed not to. Many of us came ... because i.. | historical-fiction historical-fiction-history-war | Jeff Shaara | |
| 73d963a | Richmond serves one purpose. Lee must defend it. If we threaten the city, he will have to confront us. Lee will soon learn ... we are not going away. If the newspapers and all those people in Washington must hear that, fine, I will write it down, send a letter to Stanton. You can deliver it yourself, read it to him, to all of them, make them understand what we are going to do. If it takes all summer ... if it takes all year ... it is only a.. | civil-war-eastern-theater | Jeff Shaara | |
| 729d8be | Sorry, ma'am, but we need a big damn army right now, and there's no better way to make one than to gather up a bunch of boys and tell them how much fun they're going to have killing their enemy. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 34cae22 | It's not Art. And Art is not Design. | design | Chip Kidd | |
| 3524c4e | Our civic life is heavily marked--indeed, pocked--by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible. For that matter, debate--in its original sense of "to consider something, to deliberate"--is impossible. We wind up with so much sound and fury and nothing gained." | listening | Leah Hager Cohen | |
| 89df8a8 | No one system reveals the entire truth; at best, each organizes one point of view or perspective. We must consider many perspectives, and a philosopher should not imprison his thought in one system. | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| 0def4f7 | Gozonunde tutulacak ilk nokta, varolusculugun herhangi bir ozel politik programi gerektirmedigi, uc onemli varolscunun Hitler yillarinda birbirinden apayri yollar tutmalarinin hic de sasirtici olmadgidir. Ama bu, ucunun de yazdiklarina ayni olcude bagli kaldiklari anlamina gelmez. Sein und Zeit'de durmadan olumu yigitce karsilamaktan soz eden Heidegger, Hitler'in yetkiyi ele gecirisinden sonra Nazilerle birleserek, universitenin rektoru ola.. | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| de0ae0b | It is an eternal phenomenon: The insatiable will always find a way, by means of an illusion spread over things, to detain its creatures in life and to compel them to live on. One is chained by the Socratic joy of knowing and the delusion of being able thereby to heal the eternal wound of existence; another is ensnared by art's seductive veil of beauty fluttering before his eyes; yet another by the metaphysical consolation that beneath the w.. | Thomas Ligotti | ||
| 777e3c5 | The problem of evil is unanswerable if one believes that there is only one god and that he is omnipotent as well as infinitely good, merciful, and just. But as soon as one denies one or more of these premises, the problem disappears. The belief in two great gods, one good and one evil, is merely one way of doing that. Polytheism is another. Belief in only one god who is omnipotent but not infinitely good, just, and merciful is a third way. .. | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| 664d836 | When I rode the train west, I went looking for something, but I didn't see anything wonderful. I didn't see anything better than what I already had. Home. | restlessness | Karen Hesse | |
| 72e8707 | the morning with the whole day waiting, full of promise, the night of quiet, of no expectations, of rest. And the certainty of home, the one I live in, and the one that lives in me. | contentment foundation | Karen Hesse | |
| 9cc4e3d | laugh a minute very funny: it's a laugh a minute when Lois gets together with her dad. # laugh out of the other side of one's mouth be discomfited after feeling satisfaction or confidence about something: you'd be laughing out the other side of your mouth if we were sitting in jail right now. # laugh someone/something out of court dismiss with contempt as being obviously ridiculous. # laugh oneself silly (or sick) laugh uncontrollably or fo.. | Erin McKean | ||
| 71d2ea3 | I like someone who laughs, but not all the time, and not too loud. I like it when someone laughs at the world, and not at someone in particular -- when some particularly absurd thing happens, not just someone falling down. | Erin McKean | ||
| ea18ab9 | I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you. | Erin McKean | ||
| 18865d8 | You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 6c702d4 | The Truth Is That Challenge Is the Crucible for Greatness. The study of leadership is the study of how men and women guide people through uncertainty, hardship, disruption, transformation, transition, recovery, new beginnings, and other significant challenges. It's also the study of how men and women, in times of constancy and complacency, actively seek to disturb the status quo, awaken new possibilities, and pursue opportunities. | James M. Kouzes | ||
| f1191fe | When leaders are doing their best, they Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart. | James M. Kouzes | ||
| eca4e51 | Teamwork: What did you do today to lend a hand to a colleague? Respect: What did you do today to acknowledge the work of one of your colleagues? Learning: What's one mistake you made in the last week, and what did you learn from it? Continuous improvement: What have you done in the past week to improve so that you're better this week than last? Customer focus: What is one change you made in the last week that came from a customer suggestion.. | James M. Kouzes |